Statements
A new joint report from the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 2883 and the Public Data Observatory found that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have suffered estimated workforce losses of 30 percent, or more than 3,800 civil servants under the reckless stewardship of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and President Trump.
The Trump administration is breaking the law by attempting to unilaterally eliminate (or “impound”) nearly $1 billion in taxpayer funding that was constitutionally enacted – approved by the House, the Senate, and signed by the President – a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has found. House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) issued a statement regarding the ruling:
The Trump administration used funding allocated for Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in Republicans’ “One Big Beautiful Bill” to pay for President Trump’s government funded political ads that started running last week. House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) and House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee Ranking Member Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28) released the following statement:
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) issued a statement following reports over the weekend that the White House is drafting a new executive order to exert further political control over who receives research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH):
Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, sent a letter to Energy Secretary Chris Wright calling out the dozens of changes being made to operating directives at the Department of Energy (DOE), which is jeopardizing the safety of work being done at DOE labs, plants, and sites, reduces transparency and Federal oversight, and risks wasting taxpayer dollars. DOE made these sweeping changes without meaningful engagement with workers, labor unions, and other stakeholders.